Scheduling DFSMSrmm utilities

You can schedule each DFSMSrmm utility to run on its own, or schedule many activities to run together in a sequence. You can schedule activities such as vital records processing to be performed daily. Other activities can be scheduled less frequently, for example on a weekly basis. You can use a job scheduling product like the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS to run the utilities. See Running DFSMSrmm with the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS for information about using the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS for scheduling DFSMSrmm utilities.

Table 1 suggests how frequently to run DFSMSrmm utilities. References are listed to help you locate the information about the utilities.

Table 1. Scheduling DFSMSrmm utilities
Activity	Frequency	Reference
Processing vital records	Daily	JCL for EDGHSKP and Running vital record processing
Performing expiration processing	Daily	JCL for EDGHSKP and Running expiration processing
Performing storage location management	Weekly	JCL for EDGHSKP and Running storage location management processing
Creating an extract data set	Daily	JCL for EDGHSKP
Creating volume movement and inventory reports	Weekly	See z/OS DFSMSrmm Reporting
Creating security and audit reports	Monthly	See z/OS DFSMSrmm Reporting
Backing up the DFSMSrmm control data set	Daily	JCL for EDGHSKP, Backing up the control data set, and Backing up the control data set
Backing up the DFSMSrmm journal	Daily	JCL for EDGHSKP, Backing up the control data set, and Backing up the DFSMSrmm control data set and journal
Verifying the control data set	Monthly	Using EDGUTIL for tasks such as creating and verifying the control data set
Initializing and erasing volumes	Weekly	Initializing, erasing, and scanning tape volumes